The Murrow Boys , or Murrow's Boys , were the CBS radio broadcast journalists most closely associated with Edward R. Murrow during his time at the network, most notably in the years before and during World War II .
34-409: Murrow recruited a number of newsmen and women to CBS during his years as a correspondent, European news chief, and executive. The "Boys" were his closest professional and personal associates. They also shared Murrow's preference for incisive, thought-provoking coverage of public affairs, abroad and at home. They achieved nationwide fame, and inadvertently became early examples of "celebrity journalism" in
68-412: A 24/7 sports radio network, " CBS Sports Radio ," in fall 2012. It was distributed through Cumulus Media Networks , owned by Cumulus Media . (Cumulus Media Networks was merged into Westwood One in 2013, following Cumulus' acquisition of Westwood One.) In 2017, CBS Sports Radio was sold to Entercom (now Audacy, Inc. ) after it acquired CBS Radio. It now uses the title "Infinity Sports Network." While
102-550: A biography titled Kissinger. The brothers also co-authored The Last Ambassador , a novel about the collapse of Saigon in 1975. In 1984, Kalb was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and spokesman for the U.S. State Department . It was the first time that a journalist who covered the State Department had been named as its spokesperson. Kalb quit this post two years later to protest what he called "the reported disinformation program" conducted by
136-460: A bomber over Utah Beach at H-Hour, the initial phase of the invasion. Collingwood and Gene Ryder covered Utah Beach, as did Larry LeSueur from a separate landing craft, while Downs covered Gold Beach . All three had difficulty finding working mobile transmitters, and no correspondents of any network were able to report live from the Normandy front until over a week after the initial landings. Of
170-587: A half-interest in what became the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928, and became its president. (In 1938, CBS bought its former parent, Columbia Records.) For more about the network's history, see CBS . On February 2, 2017, CBS Corporation announced that its shareholders had acquired a majority stake in Entercom (now Audacy, Inc. ), whose corporate management will continue to oversee the company along with CBS's radio assets. The merger
204-568: A lecturer and moderator. He was the founding anchor and a panelist on the weekly CNN program Reliable Sources from 1993 to 1998. Kalb won an Overseas Press Club Award for a 1968 documentary on the Vietcong . Kalb and his wife, Phyllis Bernstein, had four daughters. He turned 100 on February 4, 2022. On January 2, 2023, Kalb suffered a fall and died from his injuries six days later at his home in North Bethesda, Maryland . He
238-553: A morning talk show hosted by Michael Smerconish , based at WPHT Philadelphia , on some of its owned-and-operated stations. CBS handled the syndication of Grayson's show itself, while syndication for Smerconish's show to non-CBS stations had been outsourced to Dial Global (which at that time was not involved with the CBS Radio Network itself). Grayson's show, Overnight America , also entered national syndication via Dial Global on January 30, 2012. Smerconish discontinued
272-636: A source. He later joined CNN , and was a senior news analyst for National Public Radio , often delivering commentaries in the Murrow mold, until his death on July 23, 2010. Kalb, the last journalist recruited by Murrow to CBS, was joined by his brother Bernard at the network in the 1960s and 70s. The Kalbs later moved on to NBC. Marvin Kalb is now a Fox News contributor and is now a Washington-based senior fellow for Harvard University . Many journalists, including some at CBS, include these "postwar" associates in
306-1153: Is now known as WHSQ), and several other all-news and news-talk stations. They include KNX and KNX-FM in Los Angeles, WBBM in Chicago, KCBS in San Francisco, KRLD in Dallas , KYW in Philadelphia , WTOP-FM in Washington , WBZ in Boston , WWJ in Detroit, WCCO in Minneapolis , KXNT in Las Vegas , KMOX in St. Louis , and WTIC in Hartford . ( WINS and WINS-FM in New York do not carry
340-453: Is owned by iHeartMedia , and licenses use of the NBC name and audio from NBC News . CBS News Radio is one of the two national news services distributed by Skyview Networks, which transmits national news, talk, music and special event programs, in addition to local news, weather, video news and other information to radio and television stations, as well as traffic reporting services. The network
374-1361: Is the Grand Ole Opry , broadcast on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee since November 28, 1925.) All-news affiliates of CBS News Radio, listed by market rank: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NBC News Wall Street Journal Politico MSNBC / CNBC / Telemundo Bloomberg Government Washington Examiner Boston Globe / Washington Blade Fox News CBS News Radio AP Radio / PBS VOA Time Yahoo! News Daily Caller / EWTN CBS News Bloomberg News McClatchy NY Post / TheGrio Washington Times Salem Radio / CBN Cheddar News / Hearst TV AP NPR Foreign pool The Hill Regionals Newsmax Gray TV / Spectrum News ABC News Washington Post Agence France-Presse Fox Business / Fox News Radio CSM / Roll Call Al Jazeera Nexstar / Scripps News Reuters NY Times LA Times Univision / AURN RealClearPolitics Daily Beast / Dallas Morning News BBC / Newsweek CNN USA Today ABC News Radio Daily Mail National Journal HuffPost Financial Times / The Guardian Bernard Kalb Bernard Kalb (February 4, 1922 – January 8, 2023)
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#1732781037394408-531: Is the second-oldest unit of Paramount Global after Paramount Pictures . CBS Radio traces its roots to CBS's predecessor, United Independent Broadcasters, founded in 1927 with 47 network affiliates . The next year, Columbia Records invested in the radio network, which was named the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System. Eventually, the record company pulled its backing from the struggling web. William S. Paley bought
442-682: The Red Channels . Several other CBS journalists worked for and with Murrow during the crisis years in Europe, though they are not mentioned as being in the circle of Boys. They include Bill Shadel , Charles Shaw , Douglas Edwards , John Charles Daly , Paul Manning , George Moorad, and Betty Wason . Also included is Edwin Hartrich, who worked under Bill Shirer in Berlin and broadcast daily on CBS through most of 1940; and Ned Calmer , who joined
476-534: The Reagan Administration against the Libyan leader Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi . Kalb said, "you face a choice, as an American, as a spokesman, as a journalist, whether to allow oneself to be absorbed in the ranks of silence, whether to vanish into unopposed acquiescence or to enter a modest dissent. Faith in the word of America is the pulse beat of our democracy". In his later career, Kalb traveled as
510-708: The CBS team in 1940 after working for the European editions of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Herald . After World War II, Murrow returned to New York and briefly served as CBS's vice president for public affairs. He maintained close friendships with the correspondents he hired during the war, and spent much of his free time with them. Younger colleagues who Murrow had not played a role in hiring began to feel like outsiders and viewed his relationship with
544-470: The Murrow Boys preferential treatment. They formed the "Murrow Isn't God Club", which soon disbanded after Murrow asked if he could join. Murrow recruited several promising journalists in the mold of the original Boys, some of whom became close enough to Murrow that they are seen as a second generation. They include: Schorr stayed with CBS News until his 1976 dismissal following his refusal to identify
578-646: The days of radio and early television news. The individuals most often cited as Murrow Boys are those who worked for and with him covering the war for the CBS Radio Network . Many of his World War II recruits came from the United Press news agency, and several lacked radio experience. Their story is the subject of the 1996 book The Murrow Boys , by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson . The nickname's origins are unclear. Cloud and Olson interviewed Janet Murrow and set out to determine who exactly fell under
612-572: The definition of a "Murrow Boy". They primarily included those hired by or associated with Murrow during World War II, with some exceptions. The initial team of war correspondents was assigned to fronts across Europe, and frequently appeared on the CBS World News Roundup , which Murrow and Shirer pioneered in 1938. The original Boys, and some of their notable CBS beats during the war, included: Several Murrow Boys were assigned to accompany Allied forces on D-Day. Hottelet rode along in
646-668: The early years of 60 Minutes . CBS News Radio CBS News Radio , formerly known as CBS Radio News and historically known as the CBS Radio Network , is a radio network that provides news to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by Paramount Global . It is the last of the three original national U.S. radio networks (CBS, NBC Radio Network and Mutual Broadcasting System ) still operating and still owned by its original parent company, even though CBS sold its owned and operated radio stations in 2017. The current NBC Radio Network
680-528: The group of Boys, though authors Cloud and Olson limited their own list to the World War II crew. Though they are not considered Murrow's Boys, several other notable journalists worked closely with Murrow during his years at CBS, including: Friendly went on to become CBS News president and later taught at Columbia University , where he introduced the Murrow standards to generations of young journalists. Hewitt worked closely with Williams and Wershba during
714-652: The morning show in 2011 and Grayson's show ended its national distribution a few years later. Three of CBS's television programs are currently simulcast over CBS News Radio affiliates; those are Face the Nation , 60 Minutes , and the CBS Evening News . Some stations, including WCBS in New York and WBZ in Boston, aired the entire Evening News . In addition, the Late Show with David Letterman Top Ten List
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#1732781037394748-597: The morning show, which airs at 8 am ET and 7 am PT, while Jennifer Keiper hosts the evening edition at 7 pm ET. Each Friday afternoon, the network also distributes the CBS News Weekend Roundup , an hour-long look at the top stories of the week, hosted by correspondent Allison Keyes. CBS News Radio has an impressive list of reporters around the world including Jim Krasula, Peter King, Linda Kenyon, Cami McCormick , Vicki Barker, Elaine Cobbe, Sabina Castelfranco and Robert Berger. Mark Knoller
782-826: The nation's capital. During the overnight hours, the CBS News 24/7 streaming service carries a simulcast of CBS News Radio's top-of-the-hour reports. In March 2021, CBS News Radio hired John Batchelor to host a nightly newsmagazine, Eye on the World . Batchelor had previously hosted an eponymous show that was syndicated through Westwood One and, before that, through ABC Radio Networks . CBS News Radio offers several weekly one-hour programs to its affiliates for airing on Saturdays and Sundays. They include The CBS News Weekend Roundup with Allison Keyes, CBS Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg , Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger and The Takeout with Major Garrett . Historically,
816-577: The network's World News Roundup is the longest-running news show on radio or TV in the U.S., the title of longest-running network radio show of any kind goes to another CBS Radio program— Music and the Spoken Word , a half-hour of music and inspirational thought featuring the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square . It began on July 15, 1929, and currently airs each Sunday morning at 11:30 Eastern Time. (The longest running radio show of any kind
850-465: The network's Newsfeed service. Many of the aforementioned outlets make heavy use of the CBS network feed material throughout their broadcast day. The network is home to the morning and evening editions of the CBS World News Roundup , U.S. broadcasting's oldest news series. The Roundup dates back to a special network broadcast on March 13, 1938, featuring live reports from Europe on Germany's annexation of Austria . Since 2010, Steve Kathan has anchored
884-403: The newscasts but make use of voicers and actualities from CBS News Radio.) CBS News Radio offers hourly News-on-the-Hour newscasts (available in three- and six-minute versions) and a one-minute newscast at 31 minutes past the hour. They are sent to member stations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition to the over-the-air product, reports and actualities are made available to affiliates via
918-413: The original Boys, Hottelet had the longest career at CBS, joining the network in 1944 remaining there until 1985. He was the last surviving member of the original group. The group maintained close ties with Murrow but not necessarily each other. They had significant autonomy in filing reports, and while they had been influential in developing the field of radio news broadcasting, they were reluctant to make
952-507: The sports coverage now produced by Westwood One was branded as CBS Radio Sports and, like the news features, was associated with the CBS Radio Network. However, after CBS began managing the original Westwood One in the mid-1990s, the sports broadcasts came under the Westwood One banner (with both identities used in the late 1990s. It was a practice that would continue even after CBS stopped managing Westwood One in 2007. CBS launched
986-525: The transition to television. The Murrow Boys earned far more working in radio than they could in television, and they resented the process of lights, cameras, makeup, and other aspects of TV broadcasting. By the 1950s their dominating presence in the field had begun to decline. Despite this, many in the core group stayed with CBS throughout the 1950s. During the McCarthy era , Howard K. Smith, William L. Shirer, and Alexander Kendrick were among those named in
1020-590: Was abroad, based in Indonesia , Hong Kong , Paris , and Saigon . Near the end of his tenure at the Times , Kalb received a fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations —awarded annually to a foreign correspondent—and took a leave from the newspaper for a year. Bernard Kalb and his younger brother, journalist Marvin Kalb , traveled extensively with Henry Kissinger on diplomatic missions and they later wrote
1054-463: Was also broadcast by the network in a short-form-feature format until the show's conclusion with David Letterman's retirement in 2015. Other public-affairs features include CBS Healthwatch with Dr. Emily Senay, Raising Our Kids (formerly suffixed with in the 90s during that decade) with former WCBS morning anchor Pat Carroll, What's in the News, and "Eye on Washington," a daily look at goings on in
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1088-643: Was an American journalist, moderator, media critic, lecturer, and author. Kalb was born in New York City on February 4, 1922, the son of Bella (Portnoy) and Max Kalb. His father was a Polish Jewish immigrant and his mother was a Ukrainian Jew. He graduated from the City College of New York with a B.S.S. and later received an M.A. from Harvard University . Kalb covered international affairs for more than three decades at CBS News , NBC News , and The New York Times . For nearly half of that time he
1122-585: Was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th. The CBS News Radio network service will continue to be managed by CBS News. On August 2, 2017, CBS announced that it had signed a contract with Skyview Networks for distribution of CBS News Radio. This went into effect January 1, 2018. Today, CBS News Radio is best known for its news and public affairs programming distributed to more than 500 affiliates, including flagship station WCBS in New York (which ended their all-news format in August 2024 and
1156-511: Was the network's long-time White House correspondent. Knoller often made additional appearances on CBS Television, especially if he was the day's pool reporter for the White House Press Corps. Knoller no longer filed radio reports after about 2011, transitioning to report mostly on twitter. He left CBS in 2020. In 2009, CBS launched a long-form late night talk program hosted by Jon Grayson, based at KMOX St. Louis , and
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